Originally Posted by
curbcrusher
As long as you can piece together a routing with no more than a four hour layover at your intermediate city, the reservation system will treat it as a one-way and use only half of your award ticket accordingly.
Has something changed with this rule recently? I tried to book MCO-MDW-TUS, with a ~90 minute layover at MDW and the system insists on using two coupons.
I've done a similar out of the way routing in the past, booking TUS-ABQ-SEA-GEG and had no trouble using one RR coupon.